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Valery Gergiev to Conduct Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in All-Richard Strauss Program at Carnegie Hall on Friday, April 11

Lorin Maazel, Scheduled to Conduct on April 11 and 12, Unable To Appear Due to Illness

As Previously Announced, Fabio Luisi To Conduct April 12 Program

Carnegie Hall today
announced that conductor Valery
Gergiev will step in for Lorin Maazel on Friday,
April 11 at 8:00 p.m., leading the Munich
Philharmonic Orchestra in the first of two all-Richard Strauss
programs this week at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Due to
illness, Maestro Maazel with deep regret has cancelled his professional
engagements in Munich and New York this week. As previously announced, Fabio Luisi will
conduct the orchestra on Saturday,
April 12 at 8:00 p.m.

The two programs are unchanged, with Mr. Gergiev—the Music Director Designate
of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra—leading a program of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche,
and joined by pianist Emanuel
Ax for Burleske.
The following evening, Mr. Luisi conducts the orchestra, with soprano Karita Mattila singing
the composer’s Four Last
Songs on a program that also includes Ein Heldenleben and Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

Carnegie Hall and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra are very grateful to Mr.
Gergiev and Mr. Luisi for agreeing to conduct these concerts on short notice.
Mr. Gergiev, who altered his schedule to fly from Europe expressly for this
event before immediately returning to London to conduct on Sunday, has been
appointed to succeed Mr. Maazel as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music
Director in 2015. Mr. Luisi is currently in New York leading rehearsals of La Cenerentola and appears
at Carnegie Hall courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera.

The Trustees of Carnegie Hall gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the
Rosalind and Eugene J. Glaser Foundation and James Thurmond Smithgall in
support of the 2013–2014 season.

Bank of America is the
Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.

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